10 new top level domains proposed

[MultiReg]

Ten organizations submitted applications to sponsor new top level domains, including ".mobi" for mobile services and ".xxx" for adult content.

http://www.multireg.com/article389.html

 

[ktj4l]

.xxx

Sweet! I want that to go through!

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ktj4l
.xxx

Sweet! I want that to go through!

So do I, but not for the reason you think. Since .xxx is one of the fake New.net "domains", enabling a real .xxx TLD would cause a collision with New.net, which would likely not work out for them.

Oh, and "The International Foundation for Online Responsibility" wants .xxx? Isn't it ironic? Don't ya think?

 

[dax]

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[JNav]

.xxx would be mad, hope it works out

 

[ktj4l]

Originally posted by insanity
.xxx would be mad, hope it works out

It would open up a whole new world for the adult industry.

 

[Tippy]

It would be fun to see what happens if .xxx did come to life with the whole new.net thingy lol

Mike

 

[MultiReg]

Originally posted by Tippy
It would be fun to see what happens if .xxx did come to life with the whole new.net thingy lol

Are there any figures on how many of those they have sold? Guess this can put them out of business. Another issue is why new.net didn't apply for some tlds themselves to make them fully operational, like for instance .web...

 

[jj2ii3344]

Woo! These are very interesting extension!
Time to see if I can grab anything off them!

 

[g0ldy]

i would like .mail to be out lol

 

[Tippy]

Are there any figures on how many of those they have sold? Guess this can put them out of business. Another issue is why new.net didn't apply for some tlds themselves to make them fully operational, like for instance .web...

I would imagine that they sold a nice amount of .xxx, its a nice ext. to me at least if your in that biz.

Everyone had an equal shot of sponsoring this ext., perhaps they didnt like the 40g+ , non-refundable, submission fee lol

Mike

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by ktj4l
It would open up a whole new world for the adult industry.

Maybe, while also being a great way to restrict access to a TLD for those filtering websites for kids, etc. Somehow, I don't think that would put sex.com out of business, though.

 

[troyserver]

Originally posted by g0ldy
i would like .mail to be out lol

You will have to use the .pm now then :lol:

well ok i do like .mail to

Cheers
TroyServer

 

[Jeffrey]

I hope .internet would be proposed too. :D

 

[samscripts]

Originally posted by Jeffrey
I hope .internet would be proposed too. :D

too long, who'd type it in :lol:

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Originally posted by g0ldy
i would like .mail to be out lol

Maybe not if you actually read the proposal. It won't "truly" be seen at all, but will be a behind the scenes TLD, or really just a pseudo mail protocol.

If you own somedomain.com, you "spamfree" email would go through a somedomain.com.mail mail server. You could not register somedomain.mail.

This TLD is sponsored by spamhaus.org.

Interesting reading.
http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/mail.htm

Here's the info from ICANN.

Proposed TLD String Proposed Sponsor Sponsor Location Web Address:

.asia DotAsia Organisation Limited Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China www.dotAsia.org
.cat Fundació puntCAT (which would be formed only in case the TLD is delegated) N/A www.puntcat.org
.jobs The Society for Human Resource Management Alexandria, Virginia, United States www.shrm.org
.mail The Anti-Spam Community Registry London, United Kingdom www.spamhaus.org
.mobi Mobi JV (working name) Helsinki, Finland www.mtldinfo.com
.post Universal Postal Union (UPU) Bern, Switzerland www.upu.int
.tel pulver.com Melville, New York, United States www.pulver.com
.tel Telname Limited London, United Kingdom www.telname.com
.travel The Travel Partnership Corporation New York, New York, United States www.ttpc.org
.xxx The International Foundation for Online Responsibility Toronto, Ontario, Canada www.iffor.org

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar04.htm

 

[Anthony]

The only one of those I think would be helpful would be .tel for VoIP stuff. The others are just a redundant waste of space...

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Originally posted by Anthony
The only one of those I think would be helpful would be .tel for VoIP stuff. The others are just a redundant waste of space...

I'd guess the only one anyone here would have any direct dealings with may be .xxx, or the telname version of .tel which I don't think will be approved. I don't think the rest will be open for general registration and will be held closely to the sponsor like .museum and .coop are now.

I will also go out on a limb and predict 6 of the 10 will eventually be approved.

 

[Matt]

Personally, apart from the .xxx, .asia seems the biggest acumulator in it.

IMO of course

MAtt

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Originally posted by SY4
Personally, apart from the .xxx, .asia seems the biggest acumulator in it.

IMO of course

MAtt

Now that it appears .asia could be a region/culture, and .eu will be for a region instead of country, It seems to be the redelegation of .la from Laos to Los Angeles would have been better marketed as Latin America and geared to the spanish/portugese languages than a single city.